Acquisition of a High-Performance Computer for Mathematical Sciences Applications

犹他州州立大学的数学和统计系将购买一个八处理器的硅图形工作站，该工作站将致力于支持数学科学的研究。 这些设备将用于许多研究项目，包括：* 预测高维多变量时间序列的增强方法。 * 裂隙物质和断层带地下水流的计算模拟。* 虫害的时空种群动态的计算模型及其在森林管理中的应用。* 理解和控制动力系统的新统计方法及其在燃烧和流体流动中的应用。* 大规模非线性系统的数值方法及其在流体动力学和反应流中的应用。

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Utah State University will purchase an eight processor Silicon Graphics worhstation which will be dedicated to the support of research in the mathematical sciences. The equipment will be used for many research projects, including: * Enhanced methods for predicting high-dimensional multivariate time series. * Computational modeling of groundwater flow in fractured material and fault zones. * Computational modeling of temporal-spatial population dynamics of insect infestation, with applications to forest management. * New statistical methods for the understanding and control of dynamical systems, with applications to combustion and fluid flow. * Numerical methods for large-scale nonlinear systems, with applications to fluid dynamics and reactive flows.